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Virgin grab BT for landlines
Posted by: eusty on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 08:56 PM
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Virgin Media has contracted BT Wholesale to manage its telephone switching
network in a 5-year £98 million deal. BT will also look after current support
contracts with third-party suppliers on behalf Virgin Media before it's switch
to VoIP. It will also mean 184 employees of Virgin being transferred to BT
Wholesale for the length of the contract.
| "Our telephony switching network remains an important asset
within Virgin Media, and by utilising BT Wholesale we gain
operational cost efficiencies ahead of the network's eventual
upgrade to Voice over Internet Protocol technology, whilst keeping
guaranteed levels of service for our customers," |
| Paul Weir managing director of networks, Virgin Media |
Virgin Media's voice switching network supports about a fifth of all landline
phones in the UK.
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